NO. 1124. liKvrsioy OF the i/Kuxoi'/j—scuDUER. ;i3 



testaceous, tlie veins more or less flavous; winffs (according to Kiley; 

 r have not seen si)read sjieciniens) "rather dark, becoming somewhat 

 pelhicid near their base, tlie veins dusky, especially on the apical lialf." 

 Fore and middle legs tiavous; liind femora luteo-testaceous, sometimes 

 suffused M'ith simguineous, with two broa<l fuscous bands, antemeiliMU 

 and postmedian, the inner an<l lower face sanguineous, the whole genic- 

 nlati<m black, preceded by a lemon-yellow annulus; hiud tibi.U' black 

 at base, beyond tlavo-luteous, often, with the exception of a post-basal 

 annulus, more or less olivaceous, the spines, excepti?ig their anterior 

 liase, black. Subgenital plate of male wholly black; su]>iaaiial plate 

 long triangular, with slightly convex sides, the surface transversely 

 arched, with a pair of ai)proximate, slight, longitudinal ridges, meeting 

 rather abruptly beyond tlie middle and inclosing a shallow basal 

 sulcus, the sides of the plate wi^h a median, transverse, ]>yiamidal 

 tubercle; furcula consisting of a pair of rather distant, very slight, 

 tiiangular projections, overlying the submedian ridges; cerci very 

 short, small, rather stout, twisted a half circle, ajacally depressed and 

 the tip bluntly rounded; infracercal plates of exceptional size, very broad 

 at base, gradually narrowing and reaching the tip of the supraanal 

 I)late. 



Length of body, male, 24.2.") mm., female, 29 mm.: antennae, male, 14 

 iiiui., female, 13 mm.; tegmina (long-winged), nuile, 21 mm., female. 2-5.5 

 luni.; (short-winged), male, 5 mm., female, mm.; hind femora, male, 

 13..") mm., female, l.'J mm. 



Six males, 11 females. Missouri (U.S.N.M. [No. 723]. — Riley collec- 

 tion; L. Bruner); De Soto, Jefferson County, Missouri, July 8, T. Ter- 

 gande(r.S.N.M. [No. 723]); Washington County, Texas, June (Bruner); 

 Dallas, Texas (U.S.N.M. [No. 723] ); Manor, Travis County, Texas. July 

 13. E. Hill (U.S.N.M. [No. 723]). It is said by Bruner to occur also in 

 southeastern Nebraska, southern Iowa, and Illinois. 



1 have retained the name qucrcus rather than louf/ipennis for this 

 species for several reasons: It was first called by this name both by 

 lliley aud Bruner; it was first described in its earlier stages under this 

 name by Packard (coi)ying Bruner's description, which was unaccom- 

 panied by a name); and the name is a far more fitting one than longi- 

 tHtniis, considering that the insect appears both in brachypterous and 

 inacropterous forms, and that it is normally brachypterous, as the basal 

 divergence of the tegmina shows. It may also be called a mistake (in 

 wliich entomologists generally have erred, myself among them) to give 

 any species of Orthoptera a name derived from the length or brevity of 

 tiic tegmina. On the other hand, indubitably the species was first fully 

 described from mature examples under the name longipennifi, a name 

 given by Kiley on the assumption that it was distinct from his earlier 

 iiaiu'd miercus. As both names were given by the same naturalist, no 

 IHTsonal question enters, and I trust that in this settlement of the ques- 

 tion at its first raising all will agree. 



